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![[Manuscript chart on vellum of the Java Sea]](/uploads/cache/33613-250x250.jpg)
[Manuscript chart on vellum of the Java Sea]
One of the few manuscript charts on vellum in private hands, signed by Isaac de Graaf. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MAP IN RED, GREEN AND BLACK INK showing the Java Sea centered o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1743
Universe Europae Maritime Eiusque Navigationis Descriptio. Generale Pascaerte van Europa . . .
This general chart of north-western Europe and the surrounding coastal waters is from the rare pilot-guide De Spiegel der Zeevaerdt , printed by Christopher Plantin in Le...
Place & Date: Leyden, 1584
Carta prima Generale dell' Asia.
FIRST STATE of Robert Dudley's general chart of the Persian Gulf, going east through India to the southeastern coast of China showing Macau and the area of present-day Ho...
Place & Date: Florence, 1646
Nocturnal in boxwood and brass.
Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass, the wheels maintained by a central nut presenting an annual calendar divided into months and days, an hour disc and a mobile alidade, the...
Place & Date: England, Thomas Cooper, dated 1701
Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass.
Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass, the wheels maintained by a central nut presenting an annual calendar divided into months and days, an hour disc and a mobile alidade, the...
Place & Date: England, ca. 1700
Inverted nautical Compass, called "mouchard" (~ "spy")
Inverted maritime compass called "mouchard" (spy) in wood and brass, signed "A Van Vastenhoud In Amsterdam". This type of compass was found in the cap...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1780
Very fine brass astronomical equinoctial ring with two brass circles.
Very fine brass astronomical equinoctial ring with two brass circles with engraved foliage decoration, signed "Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas Delure A Paris", on the han...
Place & Date: Paris, undated, ca. 1690
Mariner’s compass
Inverted compass called "snitch" in wood painted in imitation of tortoiseshell and brass, signed "Ing MANN Maker Water Street Liverpool".
Place & Date: Liverpool, ca. 1785
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Vues du port de Llivourne. (set of 6 prints)
Sought-after complete suite of 6 engravings by S[tefano] Della Bella [1610-1664]. in a second state (of 2).Della Bella was born in Florence in 1610, and studied the art ...
Place & Date: 1654-1655
MAUREEN Shipping model of a fishing boat.
This type of fishing ships were used by the Dutch fisherman to fish for codfish, and even reached with them into the Canadian waters.Overall dimensions: 1400 x 100 x 230m...
Place & Date: Netherlands, ca. 1850
Globe, Miniature, Terrestrial Pocket Globe in Celestial Case
A pocket globe, of typical form, the terrestrial globe with engraved hand-colored gores, having holes at the poles but no axis pins (as issued). The globe is contained wi...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1780
Neptune des Côtes Occidentales de France.
Large maritime atlas illustrated with a handwritten title, a table and 47 single or double page charts. The charts show the western coasts of France as well as the Spanis...
- $12000 / ≈ €11229
Place & Date: Paris, 1776-1822
Transom of a ship in gilded carved wood bearing the inscription "DUMONT- DURVILLE"
Decorative transom sign in gilded carved wood bearing the inscription "DUMONT- DURVILLE" in a foliage environment. The transom usually kept the name of the ship...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1880
Hydrograhica descriptio
This very rare chart is important as the first printed sea chart of the Mediterranean coast of Spain, Gibraltar, also depicting the northern coast of Marocco.Willem Bar...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
(Sea-chart of Catalunia, Languedoc, Provence, Cote d'Azur, Riviera, Corsica with Marseille, Cannes, Nice, Monaco.)
This very rare chart is important as the first printed sea chart of France's Mediterranean coast, also depicting Catalunya's northern coast, the Italian Cote d'Azur till ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Pascarte van Europa Beginnende vande Canael tot aen Spitbergen, en van Ysland tot aen Nova Zemla . . .
An eye-catching chart of northern Europe with a coastline from northern Russia to the Dutch English Channel in the south. Good detail on Iceland. North to the top.In the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1666
Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica.
Impressive compass rose with a fleur de lis at the center and 32 wind directions flowing from it identified in six languages, Greek, Latin, French, Dutch, Italian, and Sp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
De zee cuften tufschen Dovere en Orfords nesse, daer de Teemse de Vermaerde Rivire van Lonen gelegens is. . .
A detailed chart of the English Channel coastland. Decorated by a colorful title cartouche and scale cartouche, one compass rose, several vessels and sea monsters. A very...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Zee caerte vande Sondt tvermaerste van Danemarcke . . .
A detailed chart of the coast of Denmark and its islands, Copenhagen in the center of the chart. West to the top. It is decorated by a title, scale and descriptive cartou...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Belchrijuinghe vande zee custen van Engelandt. . .
A rare Dutch text edition of this detailed early chart of the northern coast of England. West to the top. The mileage cartouche has no Latin captures. Decorated by a colo...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Beschrijvinge vande de zee Cuften va Vlanderen en Picardien. . .
DUTCH TEXT EDITION. A detailed chart of the coast of Flanders and Normandy decorated by a large colorful baroque title cartouche, and the coat of arms of Flanders with a ...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Early 19th century magnetic dry card compass with wooden bowl,
Brass dry rose marine compass, in its mahogany case. The mariner's compass, which enabled mariners to know the direction in which they were sailing, has always been one o...
Place & Date: ca. 1800
Pascaerte van Brazil en Nieu Nederlandt van Cuorvo en Flores.
A rare chart of the Atlantic Ocean from the first edition of Hendrick Doncker's Zee-Atlas, of which no surviving example is known.Although the idea of its unusual coverag...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
A ship's hour glass.
Maritime hourglass with blown glass bulbs, orange sand, junction ring covered with cord, the circular ebony frame with six turned baluster columns. The invention of the ...
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1750
A cordiform - heart-shaped - horary quadrant marked with Gunter scales.
A small and charming but very fine heart-shaped horary quadrant marked with Gunter scales. The scales are very finely engraved on both sides.The quadrant was a very pract...
Place & Date: ca. 1720-1760
Pascaerte Van't Westelyckste der Middelandsche Zee. . .
An eye-catching chart of the western part of the Mediterranean Sea.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartographer, engraver, publisher and print s...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Saique batiment dont les turcs se servent. . .
A very decorative engraving of a Turkish vessel. From Mortier's famous maritime Atlas "Neptune François". Engraved by Jan van Vianen after a design by Henri Sb...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Vaisseau du premier rang portant pavillon d'amiral.
Fine double-page engraved plate of a naval vessel, with the various parts of the ship numbered and identified. From Mortier's "Neptune François". From Mortier'...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695
![Boats of the Friendly Islands. [together with] A Sailing Canoe of Otaheite.](/uploads/cache/30041-250x250.jpg)
Boats of the Friendly Islands. [together with] A Sailing Canoe of Otaheite.
Early view of Queen charlotte's sound, taken from "Views in the South Seas" being a very important and early views depicting scenes encountered while employed a...
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier.
A fine detailed woodcut depicting a superb variety of fantastic sea-monsters, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters. Including monsters with abundan...
- $1950 / ≈ €1825
Place & Date: Basel, 1580
Currus Veliferi Illmi. Pr. Mauritii Nassouvii. (Prince Maurits' sailing-carriage, designed by Simon Stevin. )
Prince Maurits' sailing carriages had been designed by Simon Stevin. The Prince, always accessible to new inventions of his old instructor, could not please the foreign a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1649
A ship's hour glass.
Maritime hourglass with blown glass bulbs, orange sand, junction ring covered with cord, the circular ebony frame with six turned baluster columns.The invention of the ho...
Place & Date: The Netherlands, Germany, ca. 1750
A ship's hour glass
The element common to celestial position-finding, the calculation of speed for dead reckoning and even everyday life at sea is the time: hence ways of determining and kee...
Place & Date: ca. 1790
Noordoost Cust van Asia van Japan tot Nova Zemla.
An eye-catching chart of Hokkaido and the Islands to the North of Japan. Ships navigate the seas around the Siberian, Chinese and Japanese coasts extending as far west as...
- $2500 / ≈ €2339
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Compass.
A very nicely crafted sloop compass in original box. The compass is gimbaled and is executed in beautiful red copper. Made and signed by F.J. Kloos & Son of Rotterdam...
Place & Date: Rotterdam, 1850-1875
Insulae Iavae Cum parte insularum Borneo Sumatrae..
An elegant sea chart of the island of Java with parts of Sumatra, Borneo and Bali. The map includes only coastal detail and shows the Dutch capital in the East Indies at ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652
Marine parallel rulers in brass.
Very fine marine parallel rulers in brass. The parallel ruler is the oldest and most traditional way to measure and trace routes and bearings. The principle is simple: t...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1880
Coupe d'une galère avec ses proportions - Quille d'une Galere sur le chantier.
Fine double-page engraved plate of a cutaway of a standard late 17th-century French galley with a detailed legend of parts (in French). Below is a representation of the k...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695
Mappa Aestivarum Insularum alias Barmudas.
Blaeu based his work on John Speed's remarkably accurate map of 1626-1627. It shows the island divided into tribes and lots, and below the map itself appear the names of ...
- $2200 / ≈ €2059
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Pascaerte vande Vlaemsche, Soute, en Caribesche Eylanden, als mede Terra Nova,. . .
This fine and scarce sea chart covers the central Atlantic and extends to include the Maritime Provinces, Antilles and the northwest coast of South America, east to the A...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1672
Carte de l'Ile de Java. . .
An inset plan of Batavia and clearly indicated rice fields, mountains, forests, towns in profile, and even elephants, suggesting the wealth of detail found on this map. M...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Insulae de Cabo Verde olim Hesperides sive .. Zoute Eylanden.
Original copper engraving, hand colored in outline, when published. Double page chart covering detailed the Cap Verde Islands in the Atlantic Ocean (Isla de San Antonia, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Carte des pavillons accompagnée d'observations pour en faire comprendre le blazon et les différentes devises aussy bien que d'une table alphabétique pour les trouver facilement.
A plate of 88 marine flags, including Malta, Turkey, Middelburg, Amsterdam, Portugal, Monaco, Tuscany, China, Nanking, the French Royal flag, the French admiralty flag an...
- $1200 / ≈ €1123
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carta particolare che comincia con il c.apo Aldea è Finisce con il capo Degortam. . .
Dudley’s magnificent chart shows the south west coast of Africa. A first edition without the privilege..Engraved by Lucini.Sir Robert Dudley's Dell'Arcano del Mare is t...
- $1250 / ≈ €1170
Place & Date: Florence, 1645
A folding fan showing a nautical festival, ca. 1770.
Folded fan, painted in gouache a ship pulled by two horses. On board, a large company, among others joins them while fishermen watch the scene.Reverse painted with an exo...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: France, ca. 1770
Paskaert vande Bocht van Vranckrijck Biscajen. . .
An eye-catching chart of the coast of Bretagne from Brest running south till the coast of Biscay in Northern Spain.Including the towns of Ferrol in the west, Gijon, Santa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1666
Compass.
A sloop compass in the original wooden box with lit. The compass with floating rose (Cardan system). Slung in gimbals, the east point is decorated and graduated in half ...
Place & Date: c. 1890-1900
Cust van Hollant Tussen de Maes ende Texel.
Uncommon chart of the coast of Holland, including the southern tip of Texel. East at the top. Two fine compass cards, soundings and a large Bree Veerthien offshore.Piete...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Les Messageries Maritimes font le tour du monde.
Original lithographed poster created by the artist Robert Louis Antral for Les Messageries Maritimes, showing a boat and a globe. Les Messageries Maritimes Company (MM) i...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Paris, 1955
New York Ferry Boat. (Bac à vapeur de New York).
A very decorative print showing the New York Ferry Boat "Fulton," published by Currier & Ives. The Ferry boat "Fulton" sails to the right. A singl...
Place & Date: New York, ca. 1875
![De Texel Stroom met de gaten vant Marsdiep. [with] Caarte van De Mase ende het Goereesche Gat.](/uploads/cache/12097-250x250.jpg)
De Texel Stroom met de gaten vant Marsdiep. [with] Caarte van De Mase ende het Goereesche Gat.
Two decorative charts on one sheet, one depicting Texel and the entrance of the Zuider Zee with an inset showing the north coast of West-Friesland, the other depicting th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Flaggen aller seefahrenden potenzen und nationen…
A highly decorative and beautiful print with 139 flags of the sea-faring nations, factions, and trading companies. Among the more interesting flags are those of the Dutch...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1750
Echelle pour trouver les jours de la semaine. . . / Scale om de Dagen van de Week te vinden. . . / Scale to find the Days of the Week. . .
Fine engraved plate showing eight different scales with explications in French, Dutch and English.Scale om de dagen van de week, de verschietende feest-dagen, de maan-tyd...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695
Ware affbeeldinge wegens het casteel ende stadt Batavia. . .
A reduced version of Clement de Jonghe (1650) plan of Jakarta from 1650. The town plan has a vignette at the bottom showing Jakarta from the sea with the volcanoes Mount ...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
L'escadre alliée bombarde les forts extérieurs de Sébastopol. (18 octobre 1854)
Beautiful Crimean War lithography by Becquet after a painting by Louis Le Breton. The print illustrates the ships "Fort Constantin", "la ville de Paris&quo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1860
Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.
Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.Provenance : Collection Henri-Claude Randier.
Place & Date: ca. 1760
Britain's Empire on the Sea. Dedicated to Captain the Right Honourable Lord Charles Beresford...
A very decorative and large chromolithographed plate showing all the effective strength of the British navy with the name and class of each ship shown beneath, except for...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Portsea, ca. 1897
Cimbebas et Caffariae Littora a Catenbela ad Promontorium. . .
The coast of Angola, South-West Africa and South Africa up to Port Elizabeth. Classic sea chart of Dutch school with excellent baroque embellishment. North oriented to th...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1675
The East Asiatic Company.
Very decorative and uncommon 'The East Asiatic Company' poster by Kolind. Depicting a sailor loading or unloading a ship.The East Asiatic Company (EAC) came into being in...
- $650 / ≈ €608
Place & Date: Egmont H. Petersen, København, 1950
The Royal Naval review at Spithead, June 26th, 1897. In Honour of Her Majesty Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
A very decorative and large chromolithographed plate showing a line up of international vessels at Spithead, June 26th, 1897 In Honour of her Majesty Queen Victoria'a Dia...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Portsea, ca. 1897
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[Columbus is standing in the bow of his ship]
Columbus is standing in the bow of his ship, which is near the shore. He is clad in a long mantle and undercoat, while his armor lies at his feet, and his standard is flo...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Embarquement de vivres.
With a dedication to Monseigneur le Comte de Saint Florentin Commandeur des Ordres du Roy. Engraved by Jac. Philippe Le Bas, who was also engraver for "Cabinet du Ro...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1785
De Cust van Barbaryen van out Mamora tot Capo Blanco..
Six charts on one sheet. The two upper charts covering an area from Cape Blanc to Casablanca. In lower part four insets with detailed charts of islands as Madera, Porto S...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Quartum Praelium Coniovian inter et Fluvium Rio Grande XVII Ian
Decorative engraving of the fourth sea battle with the Portuguese fleet offshore at the Rio Grande, in1640. Engraved by J. van Brosterhuyzen after a design by Frans J. Po...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Joannes Blaeu, Amsterdam 1647
Inventio Maris Magallanici.
Allegorical scene allegorical image celebrating the circumnavigation of the earth by Ferdinand Magellan. The image shows Magellan on board of his ship, surrounded by myth...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Pas-Caart van Guinea en den Custen daer aen gelegen Van C..
A decorative chart of the southwest coast of Africa, embellished with an elaborate, finely colored title-cartouche, and 2 compass-roses. Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
De Cust van Barbaria, Gualata, Arguyn, en Gene..heo, van Capo S.Vincente tot Capo Verde.
An eye-catching chart of the north western coast of Africa. Including Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands and Azores.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most import...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Virulus marinus. Cete (Whale and whaling scene)
Whale and whaling scene, set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 1. The engraving is copied after Adrian Collaert pla...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
AFFAIRES D'ORIENT Départ des Grenadiers de la Garde Anglaise, à bord du Steamer transatlantique l'Orenoco. . .
Beautiful lithography of the British steamboat "l'Orenoco" departure from Southampton in May 1854, with soldiers leaving for the Crimean War. After a design Lou...
Place & Date: Paris, Lemercier, c.1860
Pas kaart vande Zuyd kust van Cuba en van Geheel Jamaica…
A nautical chart covering the southern part of Cuba, all of Jamaica and the western tip of Hispaniola and a bit of the Honduras coastline. Insets of "Baya Oristan in...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. van Keulen, 1697-1709
![Flessingue Ville de l'Ile de Walcheren. [Vlissingen]](/uploads/cache/13105-250x250.jpg)
Flessingue Ville de l'Ile de Walcheren. [Vlissingen]
A very RARE panoramic view of the city of Vlissingen. The plate is numbered in red pencil in the upper right corner.Engraved by Jean Crepy (the father), who was active as...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Paris, 1690-1720
Glaucus, Cantharus, Salpa, Rarus. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Glaucus, Cantharus, Salpa, Rarus. Fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 12. The engraving is copi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Faber piscis, Asellus minor, Conger, Alburinus. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Faber piscis, Asellus minor, Conger, Alburinus. Fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 14. The eng...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Gladius piscis, Galeus piscis, Araneus, Mugil. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Gladius piscis, Galeus piscis, Araneus, Mugil. Fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 15. The engr...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
(Ships on full sea)
A fine engraving of different sailing vessels at full sea.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706)...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Vue perspective d'une rencontre des François avec les Anglois dans la Mediterranée.
Perspective view illustrating a battle between the French and the English fleets by Basset, a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in rue S. Jacques in Par...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
DU GLOBE TERRESTRE - Figure XC. 253
Finely engraved plate of various types of sailing ships.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Cocos Eijlandt Isle de Cocos.
Scarce print (193x165mm.) on a French text sheet showing the landing of Le Maire and Schouten at Cocos Island in May 1616 (today’s Tafahi in the Tonga Islands). Named b...
- $245 / ≈ €229
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1622
Le Rachat de l'Esclave.
With a dedication to Monseigneur Anne Robert Jacques Turgot Ministre d'Etat, Controlleur Général des Finances. Engraved by J. Aliamet (1726-1788) after Nicolaes Pieters...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, Aliamet, ca. 1785
Carte de la Côte de Guzerat, Du Golf de Cambaye et des Côtes de Concan et De Canara.
French sea chart of West India from Gujarat to Mangalore. With inset chart Plan de la Rivière de Surate.Prepared by Jacques-François L'Abbé Dicquemare (1733-1789). La...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1775